1 Cor 8:6
ALL' hHMIN hEIS QEOS KAI PATHR
EKS hOU TA PANTA
KAI hHMEIS EIS AUTON,
KAI hEIS KURIOS iHSOUS ChRISTOS
DI' hOU TA PANTA
KAI hHMEIS DI' AUTOU
The indentation is supposed to highlight the parallelism.
Now I hope that I'm right in assuming that hHMIN is a dative of reference,
"to us" there is one God and Father, and "to us" one Lord. Is there an
intensional play on EKS...EIS here? Is EIS being used to indicate our goal?
Or perhaps to indicate our purpose? Am I reading too much into this?
How exactly should we interpret the phrases KAI hHMEIS EIS AUTON and KAI
hHMEIS DI' AUTON? Is it fair to say this means that we come from God and are
going to return to God, and we were made by Jesus and exist by Jesus?
Jonathan
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